Saw a Ted Dexter century at Fenners, Thought it pathetic that some varsity cricketers were studying while playing. Had nets with Dennis and was batting well. H M Tomlinson suffered two strokes an recuperating at Abbotsbury. Robert Frost's reading at Cambridge was wonderful.
Arrangement to meet at Salisbury. George and Stephanie visiting - he broadcasts amateur radio, she reads at express speed. Altercation between George and Stephanie and Miss Benn the housekeeper when the latter engaged in an 'overactive offensive against cockroaches in the kitchen' at night. Feelings about his daughter-in-law.
Arranging to visit Cambridge and having a net at Fenners. News of Dennis Silk. BBC to visit to record a programme of Sassoon reading a selection of his poetry and prose.
Arrangements to visit Bristol
Arrangements to meet for lunch
Opinion of the Suez crisis. Visits from Dennis Silk, M. Melhuish, Robin Marlar and S.C. Roberts. Review of Sequences in the Sunday Times. Repairs to fabric of Heytesbury House.
Gifts books of his poetry to Herbert
Had a cricket net - thought form quite decent. Dennis Silk now a shooting man. Geoffrey Keynes resigned his trusteeship of the Rupert Brooke papers [?]
On his conversion to Catholicism.
Arrangements for visiting Cambridge. News of Dennis Silk and Rolf Barber.